Word: mournings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despair and resignation permeated the small groups of Harvard students who gathered last night to mourn the election of Ronald Reagan as the country's next president...
Perhaps one of the most frustrating strains the family of a Desaparecido must endure is the uncertainty of whether the missing are dead or will return. "The suspense is unbearable--if I knew M. were dead I would mourn and try to forget. But this way I don't know if I should entertain hope," one mother said. "And the government refuses to tell me anything. They just threaten me, saying I'll put my life in danger if I investigate further...
After frustrating the coup attempt, officials hastily formed a Headquarters for Coordinating the Neutralization of the Conspiracy and launched a nationwide man hunt. The government's actions were accompanied by popular frenzy. Mobs jammed the streets to denounce the conspiracy and mourn their latest martyr: Sergeant Mohammed Esmail Ghorbani, killed by one of the accused plotters, whom he was seeking to arrest...
...fought desperately against efforts to make the plant's operation cleaner. Harvard acts as though it exists in a vacuum, and pays no attention to the repercussions of its actions in Cambridge. Today the city is powerless to do much beyond draping City Hall in purple bunting to mourn its problems; but if the day should come when it can act against the University--and it may be approaching--the city may respond to its years of ill treatment with disregard for Harvard's needs in return...
...think the Soviets will move either directly or indirectly against the Yugoslavs," Ulam said. The Soviets "will probably send a big delegation to the funeral to mourn," he added...